My Edible Fruit Trees: Grape Vines QLD

Muscadine Grape - Adonis (Cutting) ^8/10

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Ruby Grapefruit

Planted: 2016

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Muscadine Grape - Adonis

Muscadine Grape - Noble

Muscadine Grape - Noble

Grape - Carolina Black Rose ^10/10

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A fantastic shade plant, it looks beautiful. Does not go dormant until early August, and only for a month. About 15 bunches of grapes in it's first year, 30 second year, only six in its third year. I also have a Maroo seedless on an archway, which fruits about three weeks earlier than the Carolina Black Rose. Maroo seedless is sweet, Carolina Black Rose is quite sour.

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2008

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: occasional seaweed spray

Comments

Wow Diana, fabulous picture of your grapes. I also bought one from daleys and had it in the ground...first season. Do you happen to have more pictures of it? I would like to learn how you train it onto the roof? Can you send your pics to I am having a bit of headache how i can do it. It is grown against the patio support pole. Has it been disease free since you had it? The young new leaves of mine come out curling and distorted. Do you have any idea why it is like that? Thanks!

Thanks, au0rey, I have answered your questions in the passionfruit thread of the forum.

Hi Diana, this spring my vine finally put on flower clusters and loads of them. I am sure yours do as yours seem to grow very similarly to mine, on the roof beams. Do you trim off any extra shoots so that fewer clusters can have better fruit development or do you just leave them alone? Thanks!

Hi Diana, can you tell me what colour your CBR grapes are when they first appear? If green, when do they turn black? And are your grapes oval or round when young? I have a funny feeling that mine may not be carolina black rose.

Hi au0rey, I prune off excess growth of leaves and shoots during summer as it is very vigorous. The grapes start off green and go black when ripe. Mine are just starting to turn. I have a Maroo seedless (a seedless sibling of the Carolina Black Rose apparently), which is already all ripe. They are both pretty round.

Thanks Diana, hopefully mine will turn round and black and be CBR.

Grape - Black Muscat ^10/10

Comments: -

taste of fruit

Muscadine Grape - Noble (Cutting) ^5/10

Comments: - Disease resistant grape for the coast. But will a Cairns winter be cool enough for fruit set? 

Planted: 2017

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: rooster booster

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control: none

Comments

Vine lost its leaves in April , before any real cool weather. After a record Cairns winter with several nights down to 7c bud burst was slow, no sign of life till early October. Mid November, vine is growing vigorously and there are tiny flower clusters on 1/2 a dozen lateral shoots. Will it fruit in Cairns? watch this space!

Vine lost its leaves in April , before any real cool weather. After a record Cairns winter with several nights down to 7c bud burst was slow, no sign of life till early October. Mid November, vine is growing vigorously and there are tiny flower clusters on 1/2 a dozen lateral shoots. Will it fruit in Cairns? watch this space!

All the flowers have fallen off now. Was it the 42c heatwave in late Nov or just that the vine is still too small ? Cordons are growing vigorously but only a handful of lateral buds have sprouted. Maybe next year?

Grapefruit - Rio Red (Grafted) ^6/10

Qty: 1

Muscadine Grape - Adonis ^7/10

Planted: 2016

Height 0.4 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Grape - Chambourcin (Cutting) ^9/10

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What amazing vines these are. I bought them (2)as rooted cuttings and planted them on a 1.8m vine. Their first season theygrew past the top wire and then set a couple of small bunches of small seeded black grapes. During the last spring (2016) they set 48 large bunches of these small black grapes which I thinned by cutting the bunches in half so that the final fruit was larger. We are harvesting every couple of days. They are not table grapes but when chilled are very refreshing and very moreish.

Dec 2017 A small crop for this year to be expected after last year's

Fruiting Months January and December

Planted: 2015

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pruned By: 90% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: chook poop, citrus

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control: I use white exclusion bag and these stop the wildlife from seeing what riches are inside

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Grape - Menindee Seedless (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: -

A new variety for me that I am keen to try. So far it has been quick growing

Coming out

Planted: 2014

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 90% in Spring

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control:

Fruit bagged against flying pests

Organic Status:Certified

Grape - Flame Seedless (Cutting) ^9/10

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I have not grown this variety before and I am looking forward to it. Another variety :)

2017 Coming out

Planted: 2014

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pruned By: 90% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: Fruit is bagged against birds and fruit fly

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Grape - Sultana H5 (Cutting) ^9/10

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I love this grape! Our neighbour grew it in Sth Australia and when we moved to Qld we grew a vine for some years before we lost it during building renovations. I brought these vines last year and they have boomed since they were planted. Yet to fruit but I expect to see a good crop next year.

April 2015: This variety seems to be a really vigorous grower and it has had no difficulty in sending out canes 4 metres or so long. The vines are almost dormant now and are soon to be cane pruned as spur prunning does not suit them

Dec 2017 No crop again this year ..  will try to graft another variety

Fruiting Months January

Planted: 2014

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pruned By: 90% in

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: Bagged fruit

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Grape - Isabella Black (Cutting) ^9/10

Comments: -

I have grown this variety for about 20 years at my old home and love the fruit which is black and loved by the birds, crisp and sweet and it can be recommended for the lovely shade and privacy it gave us. So when we moved here I brought some cuttings with us.

I had been spur pruning them but his season I am going to cane prune them as they may crop better thiis way.

Jan  2017: Cane prunung seemed to work better.. The pic shows about half of our 2017 harvesr

Dec 2017 Crop lost to unknown disease

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2013

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pruned By: 90% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: Fruit is bagged as birds love them

Organic Status:Organic

Comments

Think I have same grape bought from Daley 25years ago. Have seen similar problem usually follows a wet spring so probably some form of mildew. Rob

Grape - Flame Seedless

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Dwarf Grapefruit (Seedling) ^6/10

Fruiting Months June

Planted: 2012

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 10 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Grape - Black Muscat Hamburg (Grafted) ^7/10

Planted: 2017

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Grape - Flame Seedless (Grafted) ^8/10

Planted: 2014

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Grape - Black Muscat Hamburg

Muscadine Grape - Adonis (Cutting)

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I bought  this Adonis Muscadine and a Nobel about 18 months ago and planted them alongside my 4 Vitus Vinifera on the same trellis. Both reached the top wire in short time and both produced fruit in their first season, the Noble a couple of small bunches of small black grapes of little flesh and quite a few seeds. The Adonis produced several bunches of large golden, sweet, seeded grapes, quite different from what we tend to expect with our Vitus Vinifera varieties. What I didn't expect was the Adonis would continue to flower and ripen these small bunches throughout the year!

What I learnt was that the Muscadines were rampant and after investigating I found out that in the lower eastern states of the US where they are native is that they need more room and a different trellising system from my other varieties. It seems that in the US they give the Muscadines 3m of trellis on each side often using a single wire set about 1.5-1.8m above the ground. They seem to be spur pruned and left with long cordons.

So my Muscadines have to be moved and I have room for only one plant so it does not take any imagination as to which one will survive the transitiion.

Fruiting Months April and December

Planted: 2014

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pruned By: 90% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: Bag fruit as susceptible to fruit fly

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Grapefruit - Rio Red

Fruiting Months July and August

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: foliar and mulch

When I Fertilise: Winter

Grape - Pink Iona

Height 3 metres

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Grape - Chambourcin

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Grape - Isabella Black (Seedling)

Planted: 2014

Qty: 2

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Grapefruit - Rio Red (Grafted) ^10/10

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Water Given in: Winter

Muscadine Grape - Adonis (Seedling)

Comments: - i love grapes and have also known they need a good amount of chill to produce fruit, when I learnt that muscadine grapes can grow in hot and humid areas I couldnt resist. i have just put it in the ground

Planted: 2016

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Never

Organic Status:Organic

Grapefruit - Star Ruby (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

Moved and replanted 2008, good crop 2013, but no fruit set at all in 2014.

Planted: 2003

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 6 Years from purchase in pot

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Grape - Pink Iona

Grapefruit - Star Ruby (Grafted)

Comments: -

Yes it's sour but still very tasty. I am so happy with it that I am happy to just cut it up and eat it like and orange.

Pollination: No